Editing Nizhny Novgorod (section)

===Information technology===
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Nizhny Novgorod is one of the centres of the IT industry in Russia. It ranks among the leading Russian cities in terms of the quantity of software [[R&D]] providers.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}} [[Intel]] has a big software research and development centre with more than 500 engineers in the city, as well as a major data centre. In 2022 Intel suspended business operations in Nizhny Novgorod.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Communications |url=https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/ru-banner-inside.html |access-date=2023-02-12 |website=Intel |language=en |archive-date=February 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230212125928/https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/ru-banner-inside.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In Nizhny Novgorod, there are also a number of [[offshore outsourcing]] [[software]] developers, including Bell Integrator, Itseez, Tecom, Luximax Systems Ltd, MERA, RealEast Networks, Auriga, SoftDrom and Teleca, as well as many other smaller companies specialising in the delivery of services to telecommunication vendors.

There are 25 scientific R&D institutions focusing on telecommunications, radio technology, theoretical and applied physics, and 33 higher educational institutions, among them are [[Nizhny Novgorod State University]], [[Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University]], [[Privolzhsky Research Medical University]], as well as Nizhny Novgorod Institute of Information Technologies, that focuses on information technologies, software development, system administration, telecommunications, cellular networks, Internet technologies, and IT management.

Nizhny Novgorod has also been chosen as one of four sites for building an IT-oriented technology park – a special zone that has an established infrastructure and enjoys a favourable tax and customs policy.